Tuesday, December 4, 12 - 1:15 p.m., Tutt Library Event Space
J. Roxanne Prichard, PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Neuroscience, 2004) is a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of St. Thomas. An award-winning researcher, speaker, and author, Dr. Prichard has spent the last thirteen years studying how college students sleep. (
https://stthomas.edu/collegesleep/) She has designed popular courses on sleep and dreaming, led workshops for college health professionals on sleep, has published multiple peer-reviewed articles on sleep, and has presented numerous papers at national and international professional meetings. Her TEDx talk "Addressing our Children's Sleep Debt" was featured in the lecture series: Transforming Education (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztGkmruGPqM). Her research has been summarized in a variety of national media outlets including TIME, US News and World Report, PBS News Hour, Huffington Post, ABC News, and USA Today, among others.